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yousufzai spoke out on girls' education at a u.n. children's assembly last year. the taliban called her work "an obscenity" in a statement claiming responsibility for the attack. one out of every eight people on earth is going hungry, according to a u.n. report today. that comes to 870 million people, but it's far below the figure of one billion announced in 2009. the u.n. food and agriculture organization blamed flawed methodology and poor data for the earlier numb, and it said the number of hungry people has been declining steadily in the past two decades. athens, greece, erupted in angry protests today against the visiting chancellor of germany, angela merkel. germany is the leading contributor to the greek bailout, but at a price that's embittered many greeks. we have a report from james mates of independent television news. . >> reporter: at the airport the welcome was warm. the protocol followed to the letter. but this was no routine visit from the head of one e.u. government to another. angela merkel is hated here. widely blamedded for inflicting a depressi
yousufzai spoke out on girls' education at a u.n. children's assembly last year. the taliban called her work "an obscenity" in a statement claiming responsibility for the attack. one out of every eight people on earth is going hungry, according to a u.n. report today. that comes to 870 million people, but it's far below the figure of one billion announced in 2009. the u.n. food and agriculture organization blamed flawed methodology and poor data for the earlier numb, and it said the...
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legal defense and educational fund, which filed an amicus brief in this case. and richard kahlenberg is a senior fellow at the century foundation. he wrote a recent report arguing for race-neutral admission policies that he says foster diversity. you were at the court, debo. what's at stake under coming classes of rising freshmen and their families sking admissio to public univsities this case? >> well, the stakes are very high. it's clear that everybody recognized today that diversity in higher education is a compelling interest. it's something that benefit all the-- all the students benefit from-- blark white, latino, asian. everybody benefits from these cross-racial interactions. and too many of our high schools are racially identified. there's lot of residential segregation leading to segregation in school, not by law but by practice. the result is too many kids n't have these interactionsesses until they get to college and are able to learn from each other and break down stereotypes. the ramification of this case could be far reaching depending on how the
legal defense and educational fund, which filed an amicus brief in this case. and richard kahlenberg is a senior fellow at the century foundation. he wrote a recent report arguing for race-neutral admission policies that he says foster diversity. you were at the court, debo. what's at stake under coming classes of rising freshmen and their families sking admissio to public univsities this case? >> well, the stakes are very high. it's clear that everybody recognized today that diversity in...
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, it would be very good fo us to try to upgrade education, financial will it liy education in schools and for states to concentrate on that. that's going to go a long way toward young people understanding their paychecks, how much the government is taking out for various taxes. that creates better voters to know how to make -- if the government is this big and they're taking this much, how can i help sort out the priorities in terms of what the government should do, and be able to understand as well the recourse where there is, when they do sense they might to be victim of abuse in the workplace. that's appropriate in this case i think wage theft is one of those things we can count is being pretty well covered by the department of labor. >> would you like to see new legislation? >> i would because there are whole sets of workers who are not covered. we cover almost every worker, but there are about four or five categories of workers, all of them are mostly women and all of them are bottom of the economic pile. >> all right. that's it for this edition of to the con carrie. please follo
, it would be very good fo us to try to upgrade education, financial will it liy education in schools and for states to concentrate on that. that's going to go a long way toward young people understanding their paychecks, how much the government is taking out for various taxes. that creates better voters to know how to make -- if the government is this big and they're taking this much, how can i help sort out the priorities in terms of what the government should do, and be able to understand as...
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broadcast around the continent, "shuga" is a drama that provides aids education and broaches taboo subjects. we talk to an aids activist about its impact. on "art beat, we look at the national storytelling festival. it began 40 years ago in the appalachian town of jonesborough, tennessee, and now is one of the largest annual gatherings of storytellers in the country. and a program note-- "sound tracks: music without borders"-- offers behind-the-scenes stories about the power of music to touch hearts and change the world. the program features four artists, and includes interviews and live performances. it airs tonight on pbs. find a link to "sounds tracks" and much more on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> woodff: and again to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the afghanistan conflict. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here, in silence, are nine more. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on monday, we'll look at the presidential candidates on foreign policy. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. "w
broadcast around the continent, "shuga" is a drama that provides aids education and broaches taboo subjects. we talk to an aids activist about its impact. on "art beat, we look at the national storytelling festival. it began 40 years ago in the appalachian town of jonesborough, tennessee, and now is one of the largest annual gatherings of storytellers in the country. and a program note-- "sound tracks: music without borders"-- offers behind-the-scenes stories about the...
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it cuts education by 450 billion dollars. it does virtually nothing except continue to increase the tax cuts for the very wealthy. and you know, we have had enough of this. the idea that the so concerned about these deficits, i pointed out, he voted to put two cars on a credit card and he did. >> we're going to the closing statements in a minute. you are gaeing to have your -- >> not raising taxes is not cutting tax, and by the way, our budget we have -- >> 3% a year instead of 4.5%. >> let me calm down things here just for a minute. and i want to talk to you briefly before we go to closing statements about your own personal character. if are you elected, what you could both give to this country as a man, as a human being, that no one else could. >> honesty, no one else could? there are plenty of fine people who could lead this country. but what you need are people who when they say they're going do something, they go do it. what you need are when people see problems they offer solutions to fix those problems. we're not getti
it cuts education by 450 billion dollars. it does virtually nothing except continue to increase the tax cuts for the very wealthy. and you know, we have had enough of this. the idea that the so concerned about these deficits, i pointed out, he voted to put two cars on a credit card and he did. >> we're going to the closing statements in a minute. you are gaeing to have your -- >> not raising taxes is not cutting tax, and by the way, our budget we have -- >> 3% a year instead...
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the teenager had advocated education for girls, and was attacked as she left her school on tuesday. elsewhere in pakistan, officials said a u.s. drone strike killed ten militants near a village in the northwest tribal region. at least 15 others were wounded. a masked gunman in yemen has assassinated a yemeni security official working at the u.s. embassy there. the drive-by shooting happened near the man's home in the capital city sanaa as he headed to work. officials said the attack bore the hallmarks of al qaeda. the victim worked for the embassy for 11 years. yemeni officials said he was investigating a recent assault on the compound. but the u.s. state department said that was not the case. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jeff. >> brown: a diplomatic row between russia and turkey has erupted over the grounding of a plane in turkish airspace. margaret warner reports. >> warner: turkish military jets forced the syrian passenger plane to land last night at ankara, after it entered turkish airspace enroute from moscow to damascus today, turkish prime minister
the teenager had advocated education for girls, and was attacked as she left her school on tuesday. elsewhere in pakistan, officials said a u.s. drone strike killed ten militants near a village in the northwest tribal region. at least 15 others were wounded. a masked gunman in yemen has assassinated a yemeni security official working at the u.s. embassy there. the drive-by shooting happened near the man's home in the capital city sanaa as he headed to work. officials said the attack bore the...
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to the fatwa one of the things that fascinated was the description of your early years in india and educated in england. you present yourself as a secular muslim. but one trying to understand the relion and your rol in it. >> i mean i grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. my father wasn't religious at all. but he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of islam. he basically transmitted that interest to me. so when i studied history at cambridge, i did a special subject in that exactly. while i was studying it was where i came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses. >> brown: you say in the book youoted good story. >> 20 years later i find out how good a story it was. >> brown: you wrote when you finished the satanic verses you thought it was the least political of the novels you had written at the time. you were genuinely surprised at what had happened. >> i thought i was very respectful about islam. yes from a secular point of view but it talks about the birth of this religion and i thought it was pretty admiring of the pe
to the fatwa one of the things that fascinated was the description of your early years in india and educated in england. you present yourself as a secular muslim. but one trying to understand the relion and your rol in it. >> i mean i grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. my father wasn't religious at all. but he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of islam. he basically transmitted that interest to me. so when i studied history...
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we all of us will have to pay the price in terms of actual spending on education spending on. america will be weaker because you know we'll be losing talent what's the point of slashing a welfare budget if we're going to be paying the price for our increased spending we're going to. save the children hopes to help the worst hit families but this could be a long campaign the institute for fiscal studies says in the next ten years based on current government tax and benefit policies eight hundred thousand more children will be dragged into poverty eradicating all the gains that have been made in the last ten years laura smith r.t. london. he is coming here live from moscow it was a tough political battle but of course chavez again proved his socialist agenda in venezuela enjoys strong support this as he was reelected for president for a fourth time the polls massive turnout of over eighty percent showed just how crucial the vote was for the nation our correspondent in caracas is lucy catherine off. anywhere on the streets of caracas just hours after president hu does solve this
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we all of us will have to pay the price in terms of actual spending on education spending on. our economy will be weaker because you know we'll be losing talent what's the point of slashing a welfare budget if we're going to be paying the price for our increased spending we're going to. save the children hopes to help the worst hit families but this could be a long campaign the institute for fiscal studies says in the next ten years based on current government tax and benefit policies eight hundred thousand more children will be dragged into poverty eradicating all the gains that have been made in the last ten years laura smith r.t. london. you're watching r t and he's reelected venezuelan president hugo chavez secures a comfortable victory in the crucial vote for the nation the details just ahead. these stories and much more for you in a few minutes after this break. looking at some dogs you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strand in canada an
we all of us will have to pay the price in terms of actual spending on education spending on. our economy will be weaker because you know we'll be losing talent what's the point of slashing a welfare budget if we're going to be paying the price for our increased spending we're going to. save the children hopes to help the worst hit families but this could be a long campaign the institute for fiscal studies says in the next ten years based on current government tax and benefit policies eight...
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so i contacted the minister for education and he contacted bashar. two years almost to the day later, the ambassador, the syrian ambassador of the united states the time called me a pen was also a friend and academic in the past, computer science at damascus university prior to becoming ambassador. he said david, it's on. i'd forgotten about this will mean. i said what is on? he said well, the president was to meet with you. and so i met with him in may and june of that you're extensively. i interviewed his wife in many other syrian officials. >> host: what was the first baby might? >> well, after the pleasantries and after i explained why wanted to do those, my first substantive substantive sentence to him was mr. president, you know i'm not in politics for s-sierra. you know i'm going to read this but can criticize you. he said that's fine. i know you'll criticize me. i know that because i'm not perfect and i know in the past you criticized my father's policy, but you are always fair and objective from their point of view. and then i told him, you
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from being educated in a complex class, that this is a better education and better preparation for the world at large. that is part of their argument. let's hear from president powers from the university of texas. >> hour lawyers made the case to the justices that the diversity ethnic and otherwise, benefits all of the students on our campus. we made the case and the university of texas has crafted an admissions policy that includes race as one of many factor factors and meets the strict guidelines established by this court in the decision nine years ago. >> the grudser decision the plaintiff in that case in the university of michigan you referred to. when do you think we would be getting decisions? this will be something decided some time this spring, you think? >> could be by december. it has the advantage of being argued early, only the second one week of this court's term but this is going to be a tough one. i would say yes, not before next spring, maybe at the end of the term like when all the other big ones come out. >> and, of course, everyone watching closely and these are usua
from being educated in a complex class, that this is a better education and better preparation for the world at large. that is part of their argument. let's hear from president powers from the university of texas. >> hour lawyers made the case to the justices that the diversity ethnic and otherwise, benefits all of the students on our campus. we made the case and the university of texas has crafted an admissions policy that includes race as one of many factor factors and meets the strict...
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i zero in in particular on education. i think the most important thing we can do is have a first-class public school system, and the president, his first legislative priority was the no child left behind act. it was the first piece of legislation we introduced. we got it passed that first summer on a bipartisan basis. we even had ted kennedy on board for the effort. it does several things. it establishes high standards. at the same time, it sets up a system of testing with respect to our school system, so we can establish accountability to parents and make certain that they understand how well their students are doing, and they have the opportunity to move students out of poorly performing schools to good schools. it strikes me that that is absolutely the heart of what needs to be done from the standpoint of education. it's also important as we go forward in the next term, we want to be able to take what we've done for elementary education and move it into the secondary education. it's working. we've seen reports now of a
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was conceived by alfred nobel to fall to forced fraternity between nations but as our teams get an education report some recent winners have done more to fuel conflicts around the world took it. the decision on the nobel peace prize is often politically motivated for a simple reason it's mostly about war and peace and we know that it's those with power who can wage or stop wars but where there is politics there is room for argument here we have the nobel peace prize laureates from the last twelve years let's try and bring up some of those arguments kofi annan served as the you want to secretary general from one thousand nine hundred seven to do thousand and six while in office is stood by the u.s. and supported the nato bombing of former yugoslavia essentially bypassing the u.n. security council the move set a precedent in the polls cold war war that in some sense paved the way for more unilateral interventions by the us as was the iraqi invasion so kofi annan received his prize in two thousand and one another you want official on the list mohamed el baradei who served as the head of the u.n
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underprivileged the poor here in this country that's translated into social programs free health care education. communications housing and transportation services for people who really didn't have access for that and this has over the years built up a groundswell of popular support for the officer for ten years and he wants to stay for six more years now his opponent has really seized on some of the problems that continue to plague this country this is corruption a very high crime rate in. young a forty year old wealthy businessman who has criticized this country's economic policies he's promised to improve ties with the west and could really radicalize the way this country's resources are drawn now critics here suggest and worry that perhaps you could represent a radical alternative to shopping nominally in the sense that he could reverse a lot of those social programs policies potentially impose austerity packages on the country and really take away some of the programs of the poor here who continue to rely on of course that is not what his campaign says but that is the fear you seek out in
underprivileged the poor here in this country that's translated into social programs free health care education. communications housing and transportation services for people who really didn't have access for that and this has over the years built up a groundswell of popular support for the officer for ten years and he wants to stay for six more years now his opponent has really seized on some of the problems that continue to plague this country this is corruption a very high crime rate in....
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blog describes the atrocities that taliban then has received international acclaim she's also promoted education for girls something the taliban is strongly opposed to. egypt's of president mohamed morsi has pardoned all those arrested during the uprising last year that toppled hosni mubarak over a thousand people were prosecuted for supporting the revolution which allowed morsi to take all of this the amnesty covers all those convicted and all those are still under investigation all on trial. iraq is said to by more than four billion. worth of weapons from russia moscow sets the deal with signed over the paul several months it comes as the rocky prime minister of visits moscow foretold with his counter bud to meet him it be a death there's been no official statement on what exactly baghdad is by name but it has been reported it once fine to jets helicopters and missile defense systems rochelle lost a number of new creative oil contracts in iraq off to the u.s. led invasion of the country and some experts now suggest it's making up for it to with the op sail. ride business desk or wall have some
blog describes the atrocities that taliban then has received international acclaim she's also promoted education for girls something the taliban is strongly opposed to. egypt's of president mohamed morsi has pardoned all those arrested during the uprising last year that toppled hosni mubarak over a thousand people were prosecuted for supporting the revolution which allowed morsi to take all of this the amnesty covers all those convicted and all those are still under investigation all on trial....
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protest on the streets of tributes capital thousands of students ran against the promise has ation of education rise police use tear gas and water cannon they clashed with protesters with the confrontation continuing well into the night the student movement vowed to keep the pressure on the government despite the violence. and at least two people have been killed in south africa after a protest by mine workers the confrontation between police and some of the twelve thousand striking miners who were fired last week the country's mining industry has been hit by a wave a wildcat strikes claiming dozens of lives since august in clashes with police. business desk now and marina you have some news about singaporean want time to stand that's exactly why we just had a report that came in and showed that its economy contracted one and a half percent in the period from july to september and it's not the first time we hear about negative news like about in the world this week let's take a look at how the asian markets are doing where nothing much has changed from the previous hour it's still a mixed pictu
protest on the streets of tributes capital thousands of students ran against the promise has ation of education rise police use tear gas and water cannon they clashed with protesters with the confrontation continuing well into the night the student movement vowed to keep the pressure on the government despite the violence. and at least two people have been killed in south africa after a protest by mine workers the confrontation between police and some of the twelve thousand striking miners who...